Chapter 121 If you dare, do you think I dare?
Xu Xingxing was stunned, and the next moment a thought exploded in her mind.
"You mean... the finger bones that Shi Chen chopped off when you were still a human?" Her voice trembled slightly, and her heart tightened, not knowing whether it was out of anger or heartache.
"I thought he'd used all my flesh and blood to make the elixir, but I never imagined he'd hidden the remaining bones elsewhere. If I'm not mistaken, he must have hidden a remnant of my soul within my bones beforehand."
Perhaps sensing her turbulent mood, Hou Yuan pulled her into his arms to comfort her. "I didn't want you to go because I was cautious, but I'm worried about something more. The lake is filled with a thick, icy aura, freezing cold. There's also a massive formation, and the foundation of that formation... is my remaining body."
Hou Yuan spoke vaguely, stroking her hair and saying slowly, "So, even I don't know the situation in the formation. Will you wait here for me? I will bring Bai Ze out tomorrow morning..."
"No." Xu Xingxing raised his head, "I want to be with you."
Hou Yuan frowned slightly, his expression serious. "Though those limbs have been separated from their bodies for a long time, they should not be underestimated. Even my current body of the Hu Dou cannot compare to them. If the situation in the formation becomes too complicated, I'm afraid I won't be able to take care of you..."
"I don't need you to worry about me. I'm not useless." Xu Xingxing said stubbornly, "Besides, I want to see what Na Shichen looks like. Don't be afraid, I'll help you kill him."
Yu Yuan's body suddenly stiffened, and he stopped moving as he looked at the woman.
Is he afraid?
Yes, very scared.
But it's not because I'm afraid of the surviving bedbug.
It’s just…it’s just…
Seeing him silent, Xu Xingxing continued, "And are you sure it's safe on this shore? Aren't you worried about me being here alone?"
"My divine power still remains here—" He struggled to speak as if he were submerged in water, but was interrupted by the woman.
"I won't listen. I will never be a burden to you. I want to go with you. If you leave me alone on the shore, I will run away and see what you can do!" Xu Xingxing struggled hard and made a fuss.
She knew that her abilities were useless to Wei Yuan, and the best solution would be for her to run away and wait for him to come back, but her intuition told her again and again that she couldn't leave him at this time.
Whenever Wei Yuan heard the words "escape" and "leave", his IQ would drop to the level of a kindergartener without any explanation.
The same thing happened now. His previous anxious and depressed mood was instantly replaced by paranoid and crazy anger. He even exerted force on the hand holding her waist: "You dare!"
"Do you think I dare?" Xu Xingxing stiffened his neck and turned before the man turned crazy. "Unless you take me with you!"
Wei Yuan's expression froze for a moment because of her sudden change of attitude.
Xu Xingxing seized the opportunity and pressed on: "Don't think that just because we slept together last night, you can put your mind at ease. Let me tell you, you'd better put me on your belt and carry me with you wherever you go. I don't know how to write the word 'good boy'. If you don't watch me, I'll run away!"
Her string of words had turned his face a riot of color, a riot of colour. Embarrassment, helplessness, anger, and other emotions all washed over him, overwhelming the irritation that had been lingering in his heart.
He looked at the woman's chattering mouth and was so angry that he leaned over and bit her hard.
This guy can really make him lose his composure, lose his mind and become confused with just a few words.
Only after hearing the woman's cry of pain did he move away angrily.
But when he saw the bloodstains on the woman's lips and her angry eyes, his anger vanished, self-blame surged, his IQ returned, and he naturally began to feel distressed.
The woman looked as if she had been extremely wronged. She softly hugged him and muttered, "I'm going to go anyway. I'm going to go even if you kill me."
A dense sweetness seeped out of Mo Yuan's heart, but this sweetness also pricked him with sharp pain.
He embraced the woman and licked the blood off her lips. After a long pause, he said something puzzling:
"Aren't you afraid?"
Xu Xingxing felt that Hou Yuan's question was baffling, so he frowned and asked back:
"What are you afraid of?"
Hou Yuan lowered his eyes and pondered for a moment before saying, "This man is extremely treacherous. He chose to hide at the bottom of Chengqing Lake because the surface of the lake is filled with the divine power I discarded when I became a demon. This retained divine power can conceal the remains of his body stored in Chengqing Lake."
The remains, many of them. But he didn't want to elaborate.
He just said vaguely: "If he can control the finger bones in the old man's abdomen, he can control the remains in the lake. Aren't you afraid?"
Xu Xingxing didn't really understand why he found those body parts so troublesome, so she said, "They're just body parts. How can he do anything with them? Your real body is right here."
Hou Yuan lowered his eyes to hide his hesitation: "If it were me before, I wouldn't have to worry too much, but now, I am the body of a demon."
None of this is the point, none of it.
He knows.
It wasn't like he couldn't protect her from that bug.
cocoa……
He remembered the breath he felt in the lake, and along with that breath came an overflow of panic and helplessness.
He was at a loss as to how his past weakness and ugliness would be exposed to the woman.
He was panicking that the woman would see the horrific remains of his body that were brutally tortured but powerless to do anything.
But he couldn't burn it out immediately.
He had told the woman roughly what had happened in order to make her feel distressed, but that didn't mean he was really willing to let her see it with her own eyes.
He thought that the past had become numb in his mind, but when he thought that the woman might see those products, he became humiliated.
Xu Xingxing looked at him with his eyes lowered. For some reason, she felt a surge of heartache in her heart. She glanced at the old man who was still in a coma, then looked at the man who was lowering his eyes to hide his feelings. She bit her lower lip lightly, held his face, and kissed him.
The lips are very cold.
She opened her mouth and took it in.
Hou Yuan's body stiffened, and he immediately leaned over and hugged her tightly, deepening the kiss.
After a long time, the two stopped, and a long silver thread was pulled out from their separated lips.
Wei Yuan kissed the silver thread again, lingering for a long time before reluctantly leaving.
Xu Xingxing looked at him and asked softly, "You won't be unable to protect me, right?"
Looking at the clear eyes so close to her, Yuan finally let go of his heart: "You are more important than my life, how dare I fail to protect you?"
"Then what are you afraid of?"
But Yu Yuan still didn't speak.
Xu Xingxing didn't press the issue any further, but held his face and said seriously, "I don't want to be separated from you, and you can't force me to be separated from you."
Zhu Yuan's eyes widened: "How could I force you..."
"I want to go with you. No matter what happens, I will be by your side. I want to accompany you." Xu Xingxing's energy for talking nonsense surged up again, "Or did you get tired of me after sleeping with me last night? You don't want me anymore, right? I shouldn't have slept with you earlier. Not only am I exhausted to death, but you also pulled out-"
Xu Xingxing's mouth was covered. Looking at Xu Yuan's already red face, she hooked her arms around his neck and kissed him on the lips through his palm. Then she drooped her brows and mumbled something.
The words were not clear, but Wei Yuan understood.
"Don't be afraid. I just don't want to be separated from you. If you really don't want me to go, then... I won't go."
The heart that had been tense in his heart sank little by little, finally settling firmly in his chest. He held the woman in his arms, remained silent for a long time, and finally sighed as if in compromise:
"good."
After a pause, he said something that Xu Xingxing didn't quite understand.
"Don't dislike me."
.
The old man slowly woke up in the evening.
Sitting on a chair beside the bed, Wei Yuan gave a general account of the situation in the lake. The most important thing, of course, was the magic circle.
This magic array is an extremely vicious soul-sucking array. It uses his remaining body as a base to trap Bai Ze in a small space. Living people are not allowed to enter without permission. It only takes the souls of dead people, especially the new souls of those who have just drowned. If you force your way in, you will hurt Bai Ze. Therefore, if you want to enter the array, you need a primer.
And the trigger is the human soul.
"This formation will grow larger and larger as time goes by. If left unattended, it will eventually fill up the entire Chengqing. This is one."
Zhu Yuan looked at the old man and spoke calmly yet cruelly, "Of course, I have my reasons for not seeking Bai Ze. I could force my way in, but the formation would be unstable and Bai Ze's life would be in danger. But all I need is a few drops of his heart blood. Even if he only has one breath left, I will find a way to get it. So, this matter is up to you."
It is clear what to choose.
"There are two ways. First, you wait here. After I rescue Bai Ze, you two may be able to see each other for the last time." Yuan Yuan looked at the old man and said,
"Second, you come with me. I can use your soul to enter the formation, but you will die in the lake. Once your soul enters the formation, I cannot guarantee that your soul will be safe. Your soul may be dissolved by the formation. By then, you and Bai Ze may not even be able to see each other for the last time."
"I choose two!" the old man said directly. After a pause, he asked nervously, "Will my adoptive father survive?"
Hou Yuan looked at him and said in a steady tone, "Yes."
The old man knelt tremblingly on the couch and kowtowed deeply:
"Thank you, Lord, for your help."
*
The night sky was extremely gloomy, with howling winds and lightning dragons swam in the clouds, oppressing people to the point of suffocation. Xu Xingxing was standing by the lake, gazing at the several-meter-high waves. It seemed as if several giant monsters as big as mountains were imprisoned within them, roaring and screaming as they struggled to break free.
The old man felt unwell again like in the afternoon. Xun Yuan cut his fingertips and tapped the old man's chest. After a while, the old man recovered.
Xu Xingxing asked in surprise, "Are these abnormalities with the old man's finger bones, the weather, and the lake water related to you?"
Hou Yuan held her hand and smiled: "Those bodies are now controlled by the stinking Dao, but what's mine is still mine. If it weren't for Bai Ze, breaking the formation would be much easier."
After saying this, black nails grew out of his fingertips, and he casually cut open the palm of his hand. Blood flowed slowly down, and two fingers immediately formed a seal. Yuan raised his hand and drew two blood curses in the air. The blood curses paused in the air for a moment, and disappeared into the hearts of the two people respectively.
"What is this?" Xu Xingxing looked at his slightly transparent body.
"You need to hide the scent of the living."
Hou Yuan took her hand and led her to the small boat that had already docked on the shore. He used his black energy to guide the old man aboard. After they were seated, he looked at the old man and said, "When the boat reaches the center of the lake, I will remove the broken bones from your body. This way, you will lose consciousness after drowning, and you won't suffer too much before you die."
Xu Xingxing was shocked and even more distressed when she heard Hou Yuan's blunt words. She glanced at Hou Yuan with a reproachful look and apologized to the old man: "Don't worry about the old man. He doesn't speak human language. I will find you as soon as you enter the formation. After breaking the formation, I will pray for you and send you to reincarnation..."
Unexpectedly, the old man didn't care at all. His face was filled with relief and a smile, as if he was about to be liberated. "Young lady, you worry too much. I no longer care about the afterlife. Meeting my adoptive father in this life is my greatest joy. You don't have to feel sorry for me. I have been looking forward to this day for too long. My adoptive father is kind by nature, but he was forced to do evil because of me by that wicked man, and I am powerless to stop him."
At this point, the old man took a deep breath, suppressed the tears in his eyes, and said with a smile: "He raised me and taught me, and I have no way to repay him. Now he is in prison, and the only thing I can do for him is to give him my life. If it weren't for him, this life would never have grown up. I am the one who harmed him, I am the one who harmed him."
Hearing this, Xu Xingxing felt extremely sad, and tears fell without warning. She looked at the old man's wrinkles that had relaxed, and wanted to speak again, but she felt her throat was blocked and she couldn't utter a word.
The boat moved forward quickly in the huge waves and soon reached the center of the lake.
Zhu Yuan held Xu Xingxing's hand tightly, looked up at the old man, and said, "I'm going to remove the magic."
The old man nodded calmly and thanked him again: "Thank you, my lord."
As the magic was withdrawn, a violent wind and huge waves came at the same time. Xu Xingxing's heart tightened and he shouted, "Old man, I still don't know your name?"
The old man shook his head and said, "Girl, you don't have to remember me."
A huge wave came over from above, and the next moment, the lake was empty, there was nothing, even the water surface suddenly became still.
*
"Xing'er, do you want to eat candied haws?"
Xu Xingxing heard a woman's voice, gentle and patient.
"Isn't Xing'er's favorite candied haws?" The woman wiped her face with a hot towel while speaking. As she heard these words, she felt dizzy, her body cold, and her eyelids were as if stuck with double-sided tape and she couldn't open them.
"When Xing'er recovers from her illness, I'll take you there to eat, okay?"
Good is good...
But I don’t like eating candied haws either.
Xu Xingxing thought vaguely.
"Stop nagging. Didn't Chen Li say that he would be fine in the next two days? Don't you still believe her? Go and rest for a while, I'll watch over you." A man's voice came.
Xu Xingxing's whole body shuddered, and his mind instantly became much clearer.
Xu Yi? ?
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